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Showing posts with label Sierra Leone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sierra Leone. Show all posts

Friday, March 4, 2022

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom - High number of Sierra Leone children trafficked before 18th birthday

Title:
High number of Sierra Leone children trafficked before 18th birthday
 
Published:
University of Liverpool, 25 February 2022
 
From the news article:
An estimated 33% of children aged 5 to 17 in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province have experienced child trafficking, and 36% have experienced child labor, according to a new collaborative report from the University of Liverpool and the University of Georgia.  
 
The report—Child Trafficking and the Worst Forms of Child Labor in Sierra Leone—represents the largest-scale household survey on the topic ever undertaken in Sierra Leone.
 

Thursday, March 11, 2021

An Ethnographic Examination of People's Reactions to State-Led COVID-19 Measures in Sierra Leone [Scholarly Article - The European Journal of Development Research, 2021]

Title:
An Ethnographic Examination of People's Reactions to State-Led COVID-19 Measures in Sierra Leone
 
Author:
Jess Jones
University of Makeni, Sierra Leone
 
Published:
The European Journal of Development Research, 1 February 2021
 
Abstract:
This paper explores how individuals—defined along lines of gender, age, life experience, financial capital and profession—experience and react in nuanced ways to the impacts of state-led COVID-19 measures, in Sierra Leone. The findings are based on ethnographic data collected from Makeni city and three rural communities in Bombali District, north Sierra Leone during the outbreak of COVID-19, between 23rd March and 6th May 2020. The findings show how state-led measures—indefinite district lockdown, three-day total lockdowns and mask wearing—were experienced and responded to in myriad ways, including adapting, not complying and resisting. The diverse ways members of society experience, react and shape the effects of internationally and nationally informed health policies during a global pandemic in Sierra Leone highlight the nuances of individual experience and agency in specific socio-political contexts. These findings contribute to the emerging Social Science debate on state–society relations in the COVID-19 pandemic response.  
 
[Résumé: 
Cet article explore la façon dont les gens—qui sont définis selon leur sexe, leur âge, leur expérience de vie, leur capital financier et leur profession—vivent et réagissent de manière nuancée à l’impact des mesures anti-COVID-19 lancées par l'État en Sierra Leone. Les résultats sont issus de données ethnographiques collectées dans la ville de Makeni et dans trois communautés rurales du district de Bombali, au nord de la Sierra Leone, lors de l'épidémie de COVID-19, entre le 23 mars et le 6 mai 2020. Les résultats montrent comment les mesures prises par l'État—le confinement illimité du district, des confinements totaux de trois jours et le port du masque—ont été vécues et ont provoqué de multiples réactions, dont l'adaptation, le non-conformisme et la résistance. En Sierra Leone, les membres de la société vivent, réagissent et façonnent de diverses façons les effets des politiques de santé pendant une pandémie mondiale, politiques influencées par le contexte national et international. Ces diverses réactions mettent en lumière les nuances de l'expérience individuelle et du libre-arbitre dans des contextes sociopolitiques particuliers. Ces résultats contribuent au débat émergent en sciences sociales sur les relations entre l'État et la société dans la réponse à la pandémie de COVID-19.]